The Director-General, Kogi State Bureau of Information and Grassroots Mobilisation, Alhaji Abdulmalik Abdulkareem, says Kogi state government is blaming the discovery of N145 million salary fraud discovered in Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, on delayed July salary payment of its workers.
This was revealed in a statement by the state government following a threat by the institution’s Academic staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to go on an indefinite strike over the government’s refusal to pay it’s workers their July salary.
“Kogi State Government affirmed that the discovery of N145 million fraud in the salary vouchers was responsible for the delay in payment of the July salary. This is based on facts obtained from the office of Auditor -General of Kogi State”.
Abdulmalik further claimed that the delay in salary payment was self-inflicted alleging that some accounts staff of the polytechnic increased salary vouchers in other to defraud the state government of N145 million.
Abdulmalik insisted that the delay in salary payment was so thorough investigation could be carried out.